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With close reference to a selection of your research/reading critically assess in terms of strengths and/or weaknesses the contribution made by your author to criminology.
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With close reference to a selection of your research/reading critically assess in terms of strengths and/or weaknesses the contribution made by your author to criminology. Cesare Lombroso Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) was very influential to criminology at the end of the nineteenth century. Known as "the father of Criminology"1, he was the author of several publications, although a lot more can be found on Lombroso through the work of others (especially as most of Lombroso's work was never actually translated from the Italian language it was written in). As commented by Wolfgang: "The ideas, investigations and detailed voluminous analyses of Lombroso have been reviewed so often in criminological literature that it is both unnecessary and impossible to present all of this material...".2 Lombroso looked at biological factors to explain criminal behaviour, and focused on the theory of atavism, which suggests that criminals are distinguished from non-criminals by "the manifestation of multiple physical anomalies, which...
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